Tag Archives: Health
Premiers agree to accept new federal health-care funding offer
OTTAWA - Canada's premiers will formally accept an offer from the federal government for billions in additional health-care funding, but say they will also insist the money continue to flow for more t...
Feb 13, 2023
Rehab contract sparks fresh battle between veterans and the Liberal government
OTTAWA - A multimillion-dollar contract between Ottawa and a private company around the provision of mental and physical health services for veterans is sparking a new fight between the Liberal govern...
Feb 12, 2023
B.C. Liberals say Eby's overdose strategy is too narrow, but he says he doesn't mind
VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby says he doesn't mind being told his government's approach to the toxic drug and overdose crisis is too narrow and doomed to fail - he disagrees, but at least it shows...
Feb 10, 2023
B.C. First Nation declares emergency over drug and alcohol crisis
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A First Nation on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island has declared a state of emergency over what its leadership describes as the "unrelating impact of drugs and alcohol" on its m...
Feb 09, 2023
Quebec reports steep rise in organ donations after medical aid in dying legalized
MONTREAL - Quebec is reporting a tripling of the number of organ donors in the last five years, including a major jump last year in donations through medical aid in dying. Transplant Qubec says it rec...
Feb 08, 2023
Pierre Poilievre pledges to honour Trudeau's health-care funding offer to premiers
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he would honour the health-care increases Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered provinces if his Conservatives form the next government. The Tory leader ma...
Feb 08, 2023
Duclos to sit down with Ontario to negotiate bilateral health deal Thursday
OTTAWA - There are signs of momentum toward finalizing new health-care funding pacts with the provinces, with plans for the first one-on-one negotiation set for Thursday with the Ontario government, a...
Feb 08, 2023
Campaign being launched to bring awareness on rising number of syphilis cases in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute is looking to raise awareness about the rising number of syphilis cases in the province.The latest numbers from the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) show there...
Feb 07, 2023
What Trudeau has offered to the premiers to fund health care
OTTAWA - Premiers got their fist look at Ottawa's offer to increase long-term health funding Tuesday at a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but the federal proposal falls short of what they ...
Feb 07, 2023
COVID critic had illness but died of drug overdose, B.C. coroner says
VICTORIA - A report from British Columbia's coroner says a prominent anti-vaccine and COVID critic died in 2021 of a drug overdose, although he also tested positive for the illness post-mortem. The re...
Feb 07, 2023